Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.8 > Severity: normal
> Lintian warns about "executable-not-elf-or-script" on tetex-base's > thumbpdf.pl and uniqleaf.pl. Both contain a "magic perl header" > eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S > $0 $argv:q' > if 0; > use strict; > It should either accept that header, or tell me why it is wrong. I know > that many trying-to-be-portable perl scripts use such a header. Is that the first line of the file? Generally one still starts such a script with #!/bin/sh. Otherwise, you're relying on the assumption that any unrecognized file is started under /bin/sh. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>